Job growth among women has been taken over entirely by foreigners in the past seven and a half years, according to data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Those born overseas gained nearly 1 million new positions, while jobs held by American-born women declined — even as their population rose, the statistics showed.

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Employment by women born outside the U.S. jumped from 9.041 million to 10.028 million from December 2007 to now. By contrast, jobs held by American-born women fell by 64,000, from 59.322 million to 59.258 million.

The overall trend of foreign-born women gaining jobs comes despite the fact that the population of immigrant women grows at just half the pace of U.S.-born women.

Republicans on Capitol Hill are considering proposing new standards for green card allotments, warning that the country is on a path to an ever-increasing wave of legal immigration that will hamper the U.S. job market.

Currently, U.S. officials dole out green cards to approximately 1 million immigrants per year while also granting visas to some 700,000 foreign workers and allowing about 70,000 refugees and asylum seekers. There are also approximately a half-million foreign students allowed in the country.